10 October 2025
Europe/Berlin timezone

Development of quantum noise limited displacement sensors for next generation gravitational wave detectors

10 Oct 2025, 11:55
5m
Speaker MIN Quantum Science and Technologies Quantum Science & Technologies

Speaker

Leander Weickhardt (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

Description

Current ground-based gravitational wave observatories are limited by controls induced displacement noise at low frequencies (below 30Hz). To increase the sensitivity of current observatories and reach the desired performance of the next generation we are developing new compact and ultra precise interferometric displacement sensors, which are limited by quantum noise and make use of novel machine learning readout algorithms.

Author

Leander Weickhardt (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

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